Jake Paul-Gervonta Davis bout moved to Miami

The Nov. 14 showdown betwixt Jake Paul and Gervonta Davis has relocated from Georgia to neighboring Florida, ESPN learned connected Wednesday. The clash - which volition beryllium unrecorded streamed connected Netflix - volition present instrumentality spot astatine the Kaseya Center successful Miami aft primitively being slated for State Farm Arena successful Atlanta.

"New city, aforesaid mission, question and destruct the tank," said Paul successful a connection to ESPN. "Kaseya Center. Friday, November 14. I'm bringing the heat, and Miami volition spot maine instrumentality down this aggravated elf portion the satellite watches unrecorded connected Netflix."

The venue alteration comes connected the heels of USA Today's report that Most Valuable Promotions, co-founded by Jake Paul and Nakisa Bidarian, had withdrawn their petition for lawsuit permits and regularisation waivers required to clasp the lawsuit successful Georgia. Rick Thompson, president of the Georgia Athletic and Entertainment Commission (GAEC), told USA Today that the promotional outfit was "promoting thing they should not person been."

A brace of quality conferences acceptable for Sept. 17 successful New York and Sept. 18 successful Atlanta person been rescheduled for Sept. 22 successful New York and Sept. 23 successful Miami.

"Unfortunately, we made the determination to retreat the lawsuit from Georgia aft respective interviews conducted by Commissioner Rick Thompson, who seems to person a idiosyncratic agenda, publically misrepresenting the facts and undermining what was acceptable to beryllium a monolithic lawsuit for Atlanta, featuring aggregate satellite title bouts and the motorboat of efforts to revitalize world-class boxing successful Georgia," Bidarian told ESPN. "No tickets were ever connected sale, and each measurement of this process was coordinated successful adjacent connection with the Commission's Executive Director. This lawsuit would person delivered important worth to the city, the state, and the sport."

The biggest constituent of contention surrounding the combat has been implicit the value bounds for the fight. Paul astir precocious competed astatine cruiserweight and weighed successful astatine 199.4 pounds for his June fight with Julio Cesar Chavez portion Davis tipped the scales astatine 133.8 pounds successful March erstwhile helium battled Lamont Roach Jr. to a bulk draw. Bidarian told ESPN that those details volition beryllium revealed adjacent week.

"From the outset we were wide with GAEC connected the statement betwixt the fighters, which is what the matchup volition be," Bidarian said. "We volition stock details adjacent week a...